REMINDERS
CLASS PARTY FUND- Please see my email for a letter from our room parents about class parties and our class party fund.
SPECIALS- Art
AGENDAS- Please make sure your child asks you to sign their agenda every night, Monday through Thursday.
LEARNING TARGETS
READING
This week in reading, our attention will be on text structures (how authors organize information in a text). Recognizing the structure of texts helps readers focus their attention on key concepts and relationships, anticipate the material that is about to be presented, and monitor their own comprehension. The students will also be working with suffixes during our Fundations Phonics time.
Specific learning targets :
*identify the text structure (description, chronological order, compare and contrast, problem and solution, and cause and effect) of a given piece
*use the text structure to create a thinking map (supporting details)
*state the main idea using the thinking map
WRITING
The students will be editing and writing their final copy of their 5-paragraph personal narrative about their favorite birthday. Once this is finished, we will shift our focus to opinion writing. Spelling tests will resume next week.
Specific learning targets:
*crafting compound sentences
*incorporating good word choice into our writing
*understanding the important parts of opinion writing
*using evidence to back up claims in our writing
MATH
The students and I will be finishing Topic 3 at the beginning of the week. Our in-class review of the topic will be on Tuesday and Wednesday, with our assessment on Thursday. On Wednesday, the students will be completing the assessment practice, which is always very similar to the actual assessment. They will be bringing it home that night to look over with you. I have also attached the two page math review to this week's email in case you want to look at it sooner.
Specific learning targets:
*reviewing topic 3
*distributive property
*associative property
*multiplying with 3, 4, 6, 7, and 8 as factors
SOCIAL STUDIES
In social studies, the students will be working on their map skills and understanding how location and geography affect communities. They will be focusing on the different physical and human influences on a community.
Specific learning targets:
* locating the five different regions on a U.S. map and understanding how location affects communities
*understanding and identifying physical and human characteristics of a community